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CLASSIC CRIME By Barry Turner for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 19 November 2020 | Updated: 22:34 GMT, 19 November 2020 THE DEAD OF WINTER by Nicola Upson (Faber £12.99, 230 pp) THE DEAD OF WINTER by Nicola Upson (Faber £12.99, 230 pp) Familiar names are intrinsic to Nicola Upson’s crime fiction. In this … Read more
Memoir LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON by Michael Parkinson (Hodder £20, 236pp) Old writers don’t retire, their books just get a little shorter. This slim volume comes from Michael Parkinson, a journalist and broadcaster who, it’s fair to say, has been around a very long time. Now 85, but with all faculties intact, he has written … Read more
HEALTH Living better by Alastair Campbell (John Murray £16.99, 320 pp) Each morning, as he wakes, Alastair Campbell takes stock of his mental health and rates it on a scale of one to ten. ‘One’, he says, ‘is pure unadulterated happiness. Ten is actively suicidal. I never hit, or even acknowledge either of those, deliberately. … Read more
MEMOIR Cubed: The Puzzle Of Us All by Ernö Rubik (W&N £14.99, 208 pp) Remember the first time you saw a Rubik’s Cube? I certainly do, of which more later. But there was nothing quite like it. It was an object you had to touch, to manipulate, and the way you could turn the component … Read more
MEMOIR Cubed: The Puzzle Of Us All by Ernö Rubik (W&N £14.99, 208 pp) Remember the first time you saw a Rubik’s Cube? I certainly do, of which more later. But there was nothing quite like it. It was an object you had to touch, to manipulate, and the way you could turn the component … Read more
PICTURE THIS By Ciara Dossett For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 12 November 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 12 November 2020 Portraits for NHS Heroes by Tom Croft (Bloomsbury £25) Portraits for NHS Heroes by Tom Croft (Bloomsbury £25) When the country went into lockdown in March, Tom Croft offered to paint an NHS … Read more
Bookshop owner and bestselling author reveals the seven kinds of people you find in his store in hilarious new tome – from the ‘aspirational parent’ to the ‘sneering expert’ Bookshop owner and author Shaun Bythell explores people he finds in his shop He talks about the seven different ways in which customers can drive him … Read more
SOCIAL HISTORY SCOFF by Pen Vogler (Atlantic £20, 480 pp) How do you pick up your peas from the plate? I ask because the humble little legume turns out to be the ultimate challenge when it comes to polite eating, the Mount Everest of etiquette. Debrett’s, the bible of good manners, is firm on the … Read more
SOCIAL HISTORY SCOFF by Pen Vogler (Atlantic £20, 480 pp) How do you pick up your peas from the plate? I ask because the humble little legume turns out to be the ultimate challenge when it comes to polite eating, the Mount Everest of etiquette. Debrett’s, the bible of good manners, is firm on the … Read more
POPULAR By Wendy Holden for the Daily Mail Published: 23:09 BST, 22 October 2020 | Updated: 10:36 BST, 23 October 2020 ONE AUGUST NIGHT by Victoria Hislop (Headline Review £14.99, 240 pp) ONE AUGUST NIGHT by Victoria Hislop (Headline Review £14.99, 240 pp) Fans of The Island will love this Fifties-set sequel which follows some characters … Read more